Seeing Su Bai refuse to give a sharp critique, Xue Tao and Chu Mingzhe could only call a temporary truce.
The reason they had asked Su Bai for his opinion was nothing more than wanting to prove themselves.
After all, both considered themselves the best-off people in the dorm, even the class. Naturally, they had to determine who ranked higher.
As for why they cared about Su Bai's opinion...
Although Su Bai's family was poor, he wore cheap Taobao clothes, and the domestic Hongxing Erke shoes on his feet probably cost just over a hundred yuan—less than one of Chu Mingzhe's underwear briefs.
But Su Bai was six feet one, tall and well-built, with a handsome face.
Even the two rich guys, who thought highly of themselves, had to admit that Su Bai was indisputably the class heartthrob.
Still, this guy's personality seemed a little too detached. He usually had barely any presence in class.
Sometimes he seemed overly unsociable, like just now, with that expression that none of this had anything to do with him.
Who the hell was he trying to impress? Once he wanted a girlfriend, he might not even be able to find one better than Liu Yuanyuan.
After all, girls these days were realistic. They looked not only at faces, but even more at financial strength.
Take Xue Tao himself, for example. He was a River City local, his family owned four apartments, and he had been driving a Magotan since freshman year, so he had quickly found a girlfriend.
Su Bai's family was supposedly poor as dirt. Could he afford to drive a Magotan in this lifetime?
He didn't have the means, got it?
After grumbling to himself for a while, Xue Tao picked up his phone and happily chatted with his girlfriend.
I already have a girlfriend. I'm not like you single dogs!
Afternoon.
Su Bai woke from a nap feeling refreshed.
He checked the time. There were still more than thirty minutes until his afternoon class, "University Physics Lab."
He would head out for a stroll first, then go to class when it was time.
Jiangcheng University was huge. With several campuses occupying a vast stretch of the city, some people jokingly said that River City was a city built inside Jiangcheng University.
Naturally, the campus had plenty of commercial facilities: supermarkets, snack streets, cafés, and even places to play murder mystery games...
Su Bai wandered along the roadside when he suddenly spotted an Apple Store.
Apple was great. What made it great?
Its phones were expensive!
Su Bai's eyes lit up. He walked into the store, picked up the latest flagship phone from the display counter, and played with it.
An iPhone 16 Pro Max with 1TB of storage, at its official price.
He summoned the system to confirm it. Sure enough, a phone this expensive definitely counted as indulgent spending for a college student.
Now that domestic phones had risen to prominence, phones costing just over two thousand yuan could run daily tasks smoothly and handle games without trouble.
But sorry, Su Bai needed to trigger rewards. He could only "reluctantly" replace his cost-effective Redmi phone with a top-spec Apple phone that had absolutely no value for money.
He chose the natural titanium color. It looked pretty premium.
Su Bai paid without hesitation, then held his breath and waited for the cashback.
Ding! Detected the host's indulgent spending of yuan. Sixfold cashback triggered, + yuan.
His luck was in!
Su Bai clenched his fist secretly. This cashback alone pushed his savings past one hundred thousand.
Not enough.
Su Bai's gaze swept across the store's other products.
After all, phones were far from Apple's only overpriced products.
Its tablets and laptops were pretty good too!
IPad Pro 2TB, cellular version, yuan;
MacBook Pro, Max chip version, with the highest storage configuration available at 128GB + 8TB, yuan;
To be fair, this was Su Bai's first time learning that Apple laptops even came in configurations costing over fifty thousand yuan.
What normal person would need such a damn configuration?
But that was fine!
He needed it.
After all, the more indulgent he was, the more money the system's cashback would give him.
Su Bai said nothing and simply kept paying.
His luck with the tablet was bad. It only triggered a twofold reward, earning him twenty thousand.
The laptop triggered a threefold reward, earning him one hundred and ten thousand.
After that round of spending, his savings broke two hundred thousand.
This Apple Store really was a great place to farm rewards, Su Bai remarked.
Not only was everything expensive, but it was all stuff college students could actually use, fitting the system's definition of "indulgence."
After using the system for a while, Su Bai had more or less figured out how it worked.
So-called "indulgence" meant enjoying material life to the fullest and doing whatever he pleased.
It did not simply mean wasteful extravagance.
Having sold nearly one hundred thousand yuan worth of goods at once, the staff were thrilled. Several of them gathered around Su Bai to help activate his devices.
While he waited with nothing to do, Su Bai suddenly thought of a question.
"System, System, may I ask something? Do I personally have to bear the consequences of indulgent behavior?"
"Replying to Host, you do not need to bear them personally!"
"The system will automatically eliminate the negative effects of your indulgence."
"For example, if you indulge yourself by sleeping in and not exercising, your health will not decline. You will only gain the energizing effect of being fully rested."
"Similarly, if you binge eat and drink, it will not harm your body. The system will help you digest, absorb nutrients, and eliminate toxins."
Hearing that, Su Bai was delighted and hurriedly asked, "Then what if I skip class?"
"Replying to Host, you will automatically acquire the knowledge taught by the professor in that class."
Holy shit, that worked too??
So if I skipped all my required classes, wouldn't I get perfect scores on the final exams?
System Brother really was reliable!
Su Bai's thoughts immediately began racing.
He recalled that morning's ideological and political theory class.
The teacher's appearance and mannerisms still lingered vividly in his mind.
The lecture had included bragging about recent current political hot topics, as well as tales of his daughter's strange experiences while studying in America...
Fine, then. It was no big loss to skip that sort of class.
Useless knowledge, get out of my head already!
At that moment, a sales assistant interrupted Su Bai's thoughts.
"Sir, all your devices have been activated. Would you like to purchase extended warranty coverage?"
"No, thank you." Su Bai refused decisively.
If something broke, he would obviously buy a new one. Was he even human if he did not farm the rewards?
"Alright. Then add my WeChat. If you run into any issues later, just contact me directly. By the way, you're a student at Jiangcheng University, right?"
"Yes..."
Su Bai felt something was a little strange. He pulled his attention away from the system and looked at the young female sales assistant in front of him.
She was a young woman who looked like she had graduated only recently.
Under Su Bai's gaze, her face immediately turned shy.
Adding his WeChat was ostensibly for after-sales service, but it was hard to say she had no other intentions.
As an Apple Store sales assistant, she had seen plenty of wealthy people, but it was rare to encounter someone like Su Bai, who spent money without blinking. He had gone straight for the top configurations of all three devices and spent one hundred thousand yuan in minutes.
Combined with Su Bai's height and looks, the sales assistant was completely smitten.
Since he was a Jiangcheng University student, they would definitely have chances to meet again...
Her eyes soft with affection, the sales assistant watched Su Bai leave.
Su Bai, however, immediately set her WeChat messages to "Do Not Disturb."
The young woman was pretty enough, but she still fell a little short in Su Bai's eyes.
He was picky too, and now that he had the Godly Tycoon System, he had even more reason to be.
After his shopping spree, he reached the laboratory building just in time before class started.
Seriously, why did the Computer Science Department even offer a course called "Physics Lab"? It felt completely unrelated.
Whatever. No need to dig deeper.
Strictly speaking, the ideological and political theory teacher's daughter's American adventure had nothing to do with the course either, but he had still talked about it. What did that prove?
College was about the experience.
In truth, Su Bai was rather curious about the physics lab equipment. The middle school in his hometown had been poor, and its laboratory existed in name only. He had never gotten to touch any proper experimental equipment.
He found the substitute instructor to sign in, then plopped down in the seat assigned to him.
Class would not start for a while yet, so he decided to play with his tablet first.
It had to be said, Apple's displays really did look great.
Su Bai logged into an online shopping mall and looked through the desktop computer configurations that had been selling well recently.
Just now, he had come up with another idea.
Apple laptops might be high-end, but they were no good for gaming. If he bought a desktop for gaming too, that would count as reasonable indulgence!
He directly chose ROG, a high-end esports brand commonly known as the Republic of Gamers, the dream brand of countless PC gamers.
He maxed out every option and checked the price. More than eighty thousand yuan—not bad. This order would guarantee him at least eighty thousand in profit! After all, even the minimum cashback was double.
Just as Su Bai was about to place the order, a vaguely familiar, aloof mature woman's voice suddenly sounded beside him.
"Don't buy this model. It's for ripping off suckers."
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